Barrel-follower



(No Model.)

Z. WOODWORTH. BARREL POLLOWER.

Patented Mar. 4.1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ZAOHARY VVOODVORTH, OF NANKIN, MICHIGAN.

BARREL-FOLLOWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 422,482, dated March 4, Iseo. Application filed August 22, 1S89 Serial No. 321,619. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.

Be it known that I, ZACHARY WooDwoETH, .y

to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in pork, beef, or other meat barrels, or to any barrels where an interior follower or cover is used in addition to the usual cover.

It consists ofa combination of devices and appliances,hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a sectional view of a barrel illustrating my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the interior cover or follower. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the upper cover, and Fig. 4 shows .the under side of the upper cover.

In carrying out my invention, A represents any suitable barrel or tub designed as a re ceptacle.

B is an interior cover or follower adapted to be placed in the interior of the barrel and above the contents thereof, as C. This follower is provided with novel mechanism, whereby it can be made to adapt itself to the varying diameter of the barrel due to the bilge and to remain and be fixed at any desired point uponv the interior. This mechanism consists of two movable blocks or pieces D, held to the cover by suitable frames D', and yet free to slide therein.

d are clips attached to the blocks, having screw-threaded eyes in which the ends ofthe screws D2 enter. This screw D2 has a right and left hand-thread, as at cl2-d3, and is re-l volved by the handle d, keyed to the screw. Thus by revolving the screw the blocks D are caused to move in or out simultaneously. Either one or both of the blocks D may be provided with prods d4.

E is the hinged portion of the upper cover, while E is the rigid portion. The latter may be fastened to t-he barrel in any convenient manner, as by thumb screws or clamps F, and

there may be one or more of these thumbclamps.

G represents the hinges by which the portion E is hinged to the stationary or rigid portion E.

H is a suitable rest or prop on the upper side of the rigid portion, and is adapted to keep the hinged portion when thrown back on an incline, as shown by the dotted linesin Fig. l.

The under surface of the lhinged cover is provided with Agrooves e, whereby the brine from a piece of pork being cutis carried back to the barrel. The block or rest H, I prefer shall 'be a suitable whetstone, whereby the knife may be sharpened before commencing or during the operation of cutting the pork or other meat.

The advantages of my barrel with its follower and coverwill be apparent. Instead of using the stones or other weights to keep the pork down, and which as soon as a small quantity is used will become completely submerged by the brine, the operator has only to insert the follower B, press it down until the pork is submerged, and then by means of the screw Dforce out the blocks D into contact with the sides, and the follower is retained in that position,neither allowing the pork to get above the surface of the brine nor itself sinking completely below the surface of the brine. Then, too, Ithe provision of the hinged cover, with the grooves c and rest H, enables the operator, when a piece of pork has been removed, to cut it as desired without leaving the barrel or laying it on some undesirable surface.

Of course my invention is applicable to any barrel or other receptacle and in connection with all kinds of meats or vegetables.

l. The combination, with a barrel or similar receptacle, of the internal movable cover B,having attached frames D', the blocks D, sliding in said frames andprovided with clips d, having screw-threaded eyes, and the right and left screw D2, engaging the eyes of the clips and having a handle cl for sliding the blocks in the frames on the coverinto engagement with the wall of the barrel to hold the said cover at different heights in the barrel, substantially as described.

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f1. A meat o1' vegetable bairei having an In testimony whereof I sign this specificaintelnai movable @over provided Wiih sliding tion in the presence of two witnesses. blocks and a right and left screw for sliding V Y 7' T T V W the blocks on the cover into engagement with AQ/HAI XX OOD OR HI' 5 the wall of thebarrel to hold the cover at dif- VitneSses:

ferent heights in the barrel, substantially as C. J. SHIPLEY,

described. ROSE M. LAIBLE. 

